Saturday Snow
Saturday Snow Dave Boyd/Johnson City PressResidents awoke to snow-covered streets and cold weather Saturday morning.
View ArticleGore-trained ‘climate change reality leader’ to speak at site
When it comes to extreme weather patterns –– such as the most recent polar vortex, flooding, fires caused by drought and the increasing amount of hurricanes over the past few years –– Dr. Audrey M....
View ArticleBad weather slows start to seniors center construction
Construction of Jonesborough’s new $2.3 million seniors center is off to a slow start. Since ceremonially breaking ground on the new site at East Main Street at Longview Drive on Nov. 28, the project...
View ArticleThe Week in Review: Local stories that made headlines
A glance at the week's top local stories on JohnsonCityPress.com:• Count ongoing to find area's homeless The annual 24-hour count of Northeast Tennessee’s homeless population is under way. •...
View ArticleFamily: Brain-dead Texas woman off life support
FORT WORTH, Texas — A brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman's body was removed from life support Sunday, as the hospital keeping her on machines against her family's wishes acceded to a judge's ruling that...
View ArticleShould city do a corridor study on Walnut Street?
A proposed redevelopment on West Walnut Street has generated a number of questions and criticisms from some residents of the Tree Streets neighborhood. As Press staff writer Nathan Baker reported...
View ArticleTennessee Valley Authority doesn’t have it together
The Tennessee Valley Authority cries for consumers to cut back on power use. TVA can’t generate enough.Amazing. I’m a Green Partner generator of solar power and was told by TVA this very fall that they...
View ArticleCommissioners must get renovations back on track
How many county commissioners does it take to screw in a light bulb? No, that’s not the opening to a bad joke. It’s a question many taxpayers are now asking in regard to the stalled renovations at the...
View ArticleVotes vs. photo ops
Sue Guinn Legg’s article, “Solving Hunger,” on Dec. 13, provided an excellent example of two critically important conceptions: The compassionate determination of many people in our area dedicated to...
View ArticleGlobal warming
It was a great idea. Show the world once and for all that global warming is a fact. So, a group of global warming scientists set off to the coldest part of the world, Antarctica, to do just that. Well,...
View ArticleLocal towing racket
Recently, my son’s vehicle was run off the road and a tire blew. A helpful policeman called a towing service that was on the “approved” Washington County Sheriff’s Office and Johnson City Police...
View ArticleVote for Graybeal
The local political races are beginning to develop. I wanted to get my opinion out early. In politics, if you’re on time, you’re late. I usually don’t make my political leanings quite so public. I also...
View ArticleNordic nations offer a positive example of social democracy
This space recently featured a piece I wrote describing Denmark’s social democracy policies. I expected and hoped to stimulate discussion. The only published response came as a challenge to Denmark’s...
View ArticleMisheard lyrics, confusing conversations now can be attributed to hearing loss
The music of our youth not only contributed to but prepared us for hearing loss. I am speaking about loud concerts with amps cranked up to 11 and ringing ears for hours or days afterward. We are paying...
View ArticleLegislative antics sure to land state in the spotlight
Let the countdown begin. When Tennessee lawmakers returned to work earlier this month, the Tennessee chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union launched a website to track the number of days it...
View ArticleVietnam: Johnson City man's annual return to native land always results in...
Sometimes when we have trouble figuring out who we are, it’s best to start back at the beginning.Johnson City resident and photographer Tan Le’s “beginning” lands him back in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly...
View ArticleUnicoi’s Johnson City Folk Festival sets dates
UNICOI — The Johnson City Folk Festival has scheduled its 2014 festival for Sept. 25-28 in Unicoi at The Farmhouse Gallery and Gardens, 121 Covered Bridge Lane. The dates were selected after a review...
View ArticleLedford’s: A little store with a big business, long gone
I enjoy receiving correspondence from folks who once worked at long-deceased businesses. Such was the case for Ledford’s Food Center, once located at 206 N. Roan St., just down the street from The...
View ArticleFun turns to tragedy
I thoroughly enjoyed my years at the University of Tennessee while pursuing my engineering degree. While I have many favorable reminiscences from that era, there is a particularly bad one that occurred...
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